Alixandre of Zutphen

Alixandre of Zutphen (died 1338) was the Captain of Zutphen during the Hundred Years' War. He led a failed uprising against Reginald II of Guelders and the pro-English faction in Guelders, only to be slain at the Siege of Zutphen in 1338.

Biography
Alixandre was born in Zutphen, Guelders (present-day Gelderland, Netherlands) to a family of burghers, and he was one of the Francophone residents of the majority-Germanic city. When the Hundred Years' War broke out in 1337, Alixandre led a pro-French uprising against Duke Reginald II of Guelders, the brother-in-law of King Edward III of England, with the goal of sparing Zutphen from participation in the conflict. However, Reginald and his army recuperated in the countryside to the west of the city and recruited additional mercenary soldiers before laying siege to the city in thee winter of 1337. Alixandre and his outnumbered garrison held out until the early months of 1338, when Reginald's army deployed a siege ram and stormed the city. Alixandre and 295 of his men were killed outright, and 1,130 more of the city's residents were then massacred on Reginald's orders.